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physician and he had said it was a petrified baby.  He
showed this stone last of all to the young lady, and she
wanted it by all means, but he wouldn't part with
it.  I told him about some fossil oysters I had
seen and that got him to tell me the following.  He
said that an experiment had been tried of transplanting 
some Carolina oysters which are very large to the James River.
The oysters there are small but of good flavor.  He said
the Carolina oyster which grows in clusters and is very large
here separated (?) and (no doubt the offspring) became smaller.
We were now at the Loch Raven, I bade him good-bye and
proceeded along the Loch.  Here they were scouring out the
lake bottom.  A large machine somewhat similar to a dredging
machine, but instead of raising the mud and putting it
on scows the apparatus was arranged in this fashion.
Under the surface of the water, revolving very rapidly was a
wheel,  cutting and churning the mud.  Here, too was attached
a large pipe, through which suction forced the churned
and cutted up mud.  A long line of pipe carried this mud
over the dam.  Here the thick muddy fluid flowed out.
        